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Archive for December, 2008
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Hartley Nature Center, Duluth, Minnesota
Posted on December 20, 2008 | 1 CommentMost recently, this spot was an overgrown field, slowly filling with invasive tansy and buckthorn. Before that, pastureland for the dairy herd at the old Allendale farm occupied this land during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And before that, it was just another chunk of the mixed hardwood and pine forest that covered most of northern Minnesota in the presettlement era. -
The Land Ethic in the 21st Century
Posted on December 11, 2008 | No CommentsBuilding a facility to be housed on the ground that inspired A Sand County Almanac is a task not to be taken lightly. What message should be sent with this facility and what design would do the Aldo Leopold Foundation justice? Could this building be a new chapter showcasing the life work of Aldo Leopold? -
Generation Green: Creating Better Buildings and Students
Posted on December 3, 2008 | No CommentsThe assignment was to propose the design of a new campus for either an existing or fictional university complete with a visual aid and business proposal. The students, mostly architecture majors, initially found the project daunting, and in their words, corny (translation: hard and different.) I, on the other hand, found myself relieved in knowing that I could escape the exhausting and mind-numbing task of wading through a pile of heavily cited, 10-page research papers. By the time the final grade was submitted, both my students and I would be profoundly impacted in two very distinct ways.